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Eric Dewhirst
CEO
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As founder and Chief Executive Officer of HGN, Eric guides the company's strategic direction and leads many business development initiatives. He also applies his extensive knowledge and expertise in software development and project management. Eric is well known for his passion, decisive decision making and accountability to his clients.
Prior to founding HGN, Eric was the Director of Technology for AMEC Engineering and Construction.
He managed AMEC's team of over 40 developers and played a key role in implementing new standards for software
and database processes. As Chief Technical Officer with Lasoo LLC, Eric was instrumental in system design and development,
overseeing 20+ developers in multiple locations and played a key role in the acquisition of venture capital funds. Lasoo LLC was sold to Overture in 2000 and is now part of Yahoo's Local Search technology. Under Eric's leadership, the team was successful in creating the location-based services industry's first and fastest Internet-based proximity-search engine and mapping tool. From 1993-1999 Eric was the founder and President of Cymbiont Inc., a privately held consultancy that developed custom software solutions for both the Public and Private sector clients. In the mid 90’s the company’s focus shifted toward Internet-based Geographic Information System (GIS) software, the success of which provided a catalyst for the acquisition of Cymbiont by Lasoo LLC.
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James Lee
CTO
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As co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of HGN, James architects many of the solutions provided by HGN teams. James also mentors and guides most of the project programming teams with his extensive knowledge of databases and software development environments. James is known for being even-keeled, hard working and intellectual. James has spent the last 15+ years developing information management solutions. Since 1994, after the dawn of the World Wide Web, his objective has been to develop truly useful, publicly accessible applications leveraging geospatial data and analysis. The projects in which James has been involved closely parallel the evolution of mapping on the Internet in terms of evolving technology, standards and creative application. Prior to co-founding HGN, James was a senior software developer with AMEC, taking him to exotic locations like Shanghai, China. At Natural Resources Canada, as a Database administrator, programmer and analyst, he was active in launching two generations of real-time mapping of national election results, as well as successive versions of the National Atlas of Canada on-line. Moving to Cymbiont Inc., James guided the development of GeoBroker, an internet-based GIS product that was used to deploy the thematic mapping component of the 1999 release of the National Atlas. This combination of GeoBroker and an ESRI enterprise Geodatabase provided the backbone for the original Lasoo spatial search engine prototype, which was the catalyst for the eventual Lasoo LLC. James was one of the key architect for Lasoo.
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